Was That Church Attack the Tipping Point in Minnesota?

Those of you taking a holiday from the depressing grind of current events over the three-day weekend may not have seen this latest escalation in the Hard Left’s hypokinetic war against Normal America — namely, that the professional “activists” got word a pastor at a Minneapolis church was employed by ICE and as a result it was within the bounds of decent behavior to rush into Sunday services and stage a takeover.

This wasn’t a “violent” attack, per se, though it’s pretty clear what the implications were.

It’s a more disorganized, and certainly more pathetic, version of the mafia sending Vito and Rocco to a recalcitrant merchant not paying his protection money. No legs were broken, but the day’s peace certainly was, and the message was unmistakable.

We know where you worship, we can find you, and we won’t let you rest. And we hold nothing of yours sacred; we will ruin it in hopes that you will overreact and show yourselves to be hypocrites.

And the implication — if this doesn’t intimidate you, perhaps your church burns down, or there’s an “incident” involving a gun and somebody even crazier than we are making his/her/their way inside your doors — is just as clear.

The leader of the troglodytes disrupting the church services was so utterly arrogant that she actually named the participants in that “demonstration” on social media.

You’d look at this, and you’d conclude Nekima Levy Armstrong is mentally retarded or near to it, because in naming those individuals and organizations, she made a clear case for a RICO prosecution.

Bonchie at RedState noted that this is a prima facie violation of the FACES Act, which Democrats use all the time to prosecute people who gather to sing Christian hymns outside abortion clinics…

The scene was part of an ever-escalating war against ICE, which has increased operations in Minneapolis and the surrounding areas due to a complete lack of cooperation by state and local authorities. Despite largely targeting illegal immigrants who have allegedly committed heinous crimes, including sex crimes against children, left-wing activists have taken to the streets to obstruct, impede, and assault federal agents.

A church isn’t the streets, though. It’s a privately-owned house of worship, and activists do not have a right to invade and occupy one, no matter how deranged their motivation is. But while Minnesota authorities are unlikely to take any serious action, the federal government is a different story. DOJ civil rights division head Harmeet Dhillon has already stated that they will use the FACE Act to go after these agitators.

Don’t get me wrong, the FACE Act is garbage, and has previously been used to go after pro-life activists for simply standing outside abortion clinics, but it is currently the law. Unless the Supreme Court one day changes that, the Trump administration should use all tools at its disposal.

That’s what makes protest leader Nekima Levy Armstrong’s move after the assault on the church so incredible, and not in a good way for her. Instead of maintaining some deniability, she actually posted all the participants of the attack on Facebook and admitted why they invaded it.

He also noted the shout-out Armstrong gave to fired CNN anchor Don Lemon, now a podcaster desperate for clicks, who “covered” the protest and triumphantly lectured the church’s pastor on the particulars of the First Amendment without having the first blessed notion of what the hell he was talking about…

If I had to judge this, I’d say there’s a better case for Lemon’s mental retardation than Armstrong’s.

This assumes Armstrong is even the responsible party, and we can be fairly safe in assuming she is not. Someone directs and funds every breath she takes, just like all the rest of these “activists” being deployed onto the streets of Minnesota.

And it’s fair to say whoever is pulling Armstrong’s strings is no genius, either. Intelligence — obviously, to anyone who pays attention to leftist activism — is not what gets you ahead within the ranks of the organizations mobilizing in Minnesota at the moment.

What is? It’s what always gets people ahead on the Left. The willingness to do what others will not.

Invading a church and disrupting worship because you don’t like the pastor’s day job is something you have to be abnormally antisocial to do. It indicates a level of narcissism and disrespect for others that the vast majority of Americans can’t even fathom.

Or couldn’t fathom until a little less than a decade ago, because when Donald Trump won the presidency in the 2016 election, we saw these kinds of temper tantrums at restaurants, parties, and other functions where unsuspecting ordinary Americans were gathered. And it didn’t really stop for four years, culminating in the George Floyd explosion.

Minnesota is certainly turning into chaos thanks to the efforts of the Nekima Levy Armstrongs of the world (and more specifically, the people who control her). The rest of the country seems pretty quiet. While most Americans are uncomfortable with the death of weaponized Useful Idiot Renee Good in Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago, the basic mission of deporting illegal aliens — and specifically criminal illegal aliens, who are the people ICE is still targeting in their operations — is very much something the majority supports. (RELATED: White Girl George Floyd Isn’t Working)

Which is why there are only a few places where an insurrection, and there is an insurrection going on in Minnesota, can be found. (RELATED: The Death of Renee Nicole Good: Why the Democrats Will Fail Step Three in the George Floyd Script)

What’s interesting is the effect these events are having on Trump’s presidency.

Namely, Trump’s loudest critics are starting to appear from the Right, not the Left. For example, the Federalist’s Shawn Fleetwood absolutely unloaded on the President on Monday…

Members of the Trump administration quickly took to social media to pledge accountability for the incident. Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed that the Justice Department will “prosecute federal crimes and ensure that the rule of law prevails,” while White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that “President Trump will not tolerate the intimidation and harassment of Christians in their sacred places of worship.”

Except, the president has already tolerated this type of leftist-led “intimidation and harassment” throughout Minnesota for weeks.

The primary reason those left-wing anarchists felt comfortable enough storming that church is because Trump and his administration have given them zero reason to fear any real accountability for their actions.

Left-wing violence and harassment against ICE agents and everyday residents have been occurring in Minneapolis and across the state for weeks. And thus far, Trump and his team have done virtually nothing but fire off a bunch of empty threats that have done nothing to shut down interference with immigration operations and other leftist-led harassment of civilians.

Minnesota’s political leaders like Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey have made it abundantly clear since these attacks began that they will not enforce the law and protect immigration authorities operating in the city. Which means it’s way past time for Trump to stand up and do it.

The president’s pathetic and weak response is already an embarrassment. But should he continue this impotent strategy, the anarchy currently unfolding is bound to get much, much worse.

Fleetwood isn’t out of line. Have a gander at X, and you’ll see a lot more where his commentary came from.

All of which is part of the Left’s design, of course.

Invading that church is a stupid thing to do if you’re trying to win over public sentiment. It isn’t that stupid if you’re trying to demoralize your enemy. By desecrating that church during Sunday services, the idiot mafia sent a message to normal Americans that things will get a whole lot nastier if Trump doesn’t back down and let them have their illegal alien underclass, who can and will be mobilized to serve on the Democrat vote-plantation and census farm, whether this year or sometime in the future.

Because they know that normal Americans can’t stand this kind of unrest, that one key purpose of living in America is that you don’t have to put up with this sort of thing. And they know it’s demoralizing to realize there are no sanctuaries from leftist agitation.

But at some point, there is blowback. In fact, the Left — whose chief social doctrine is the glory of victimization — is counting on it.

The most obvious blowback is a series of visits by Uncle RICO to the officers of all the organizations Nekima Levy Armstrong named on social media. And all of the donors to those organizations. Treat them as members of a criminal conspiracy to violate the FACES Act and send those jackbooted masked Gestapo agents they hate so much (they certainly didn’t hate them when they were sent to raid the homes of pro-life activists like Mark Houck) to their doors at 4 a.m.

Let’s see these people dragged out of their houses in their underwear, cameras rolling. If it was good enough for Paul Manafort and Roger Stone and Mark Houck, it has to be good enough for them. After Sunday, it’s time. Enough rope has been given.

Do they want exactly that? Of course they do. Victimization culture requires a diet of martyrs. The way to overcome it is to make so many martyrs they can’t remember them all, and to actively disparage the fake victims as idiots and stooges for an illegitimate cause. Which this is.

The attack on that church ought to be a tipping point. It’s time to take out the trash in Minnesota. And Trump needs to stop talking about invoking the Insurrection Act and actually doing it.

Fleetwood noted that his weak response to the Floyd riots, which were not examples of organic outrage but rather funded and organized mobilizations of lunatics and would-be communist tyrants to destroy civil society in advance of an election, invited more destruction. That’s true.

What else is true is that Trump can create a consensus by getting in front of the Minnesota insurrection and delivering shock and awe — and fear, because these are people who have an unhealthy lack of it — to the insurrectionists.

Before the next batch of them invades a church with torches burning.

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